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Chicago examiner 5 sv Chicago and vicinity mostiy . wjjfc/^fefe c,oud y friday and saturday probably 2 vw unsettled saturday not much change 1 h mft tot 1 ' in tomperature moderate variable am mw w nd j^hs^l hange of temperature yesterday high 39 low 34 average 37 homes for the hard-to-suit choice furnished rooms and boarding places by the hundreds with all the con veniences of life are made known through the morning and sunday examiner want ad pages vol ix no 308 a m friday Chicago december 15 1911 18 pages friday gftrsofrc price one cent s ft <%Â£ arizona's senators-elect thank w r hearst for democratic victory prescott ariz dec 14 editor Chicago examiner permit me to thank mr hearst for the powerful timely and valuable assistance the hearst newspapers gave to the arizona democracy the immense energy and resourcefulness of the hearst papers which have widest circulation of any papers in the west kept the issue before the people and exposed the duplicity of reactionary republican leaders here arizona will lead in progressive government she will be a state of liberty prosperity and of law and order she is the land of opportunity and hope henry f ashurst united states senator-elect tucson ariz dec 14 â€” editor Chicago examiner i have received your wire congratulating me on my election to the united states senate ant you have my thanks not only for your telegram but i wish particularly to thank for myself and for the democracy of arizona mr william randolph hearst for the splendid aid that his papers gave to the democracy in this long hard battle we owe a special debt of gratitude to the los angeles exam iner that spared neither labor nor expense in securing the victory for democracy , marcus a smith united states senator-elect natoriiar.---drlith plot to delay subway is revealed stock manipulators planned to unload 90,000,000 watered l stock is report to whipsaw investors scheme was to rumor con solidation with city then deny it to cause slump an attempt to put off indefinitely the construction of the Chicago subway and consequently load the stock market with 190,000,000 ot watered stock was learned of yesterday notwithstanding the at tempted delays of the various companies wbo have been asked to submit valuations of properties the holders of subway stock hare beeu asked to-pay an assessment ot 5 * share the resignation of thomas e mitten as preeldent of the Chicago city hallway company is said to have come as a result of his activity in support of the subway project the failure of the elevated rail i":d companies to submit the inventory â– i valuations promised by 1 a busby at torney for the Chicago elevated railroads company which was to have been in the hands of the valuation committee on de cember 11 also is pointed to as the work ing out of the plan already the companies have secured two delays in the matter of the submission of the data required before the snbwny com mission can eventually get started on the leal work of construction possible reasons named comments were rife in the city hall as to the subway situation and many reports as to the possible reason for the delay were mentioned here are a few of the possible reasons for the elevated companies desiring to put off the construction of the Ã¼bway by the circulation of a report that the elevated railroad companies are to con solidate with the city of Chicago an up ward fluctuation of stock is made possible when the stock had reached its high mark the circulation of a report that the nego tiations with the city are off a down ward fluctuation would follow then the taking up of the negotiations would again boll the stock and the public by putting the proposition off from time i to time until the administration of carter h harrison comes to an end there is the possibility of eventually doing away with the subway entirely and the expenditures of millions of dollars jointly for the con venience of the Chicago public not to speak of the safety of limb and life first delay a long one tlie first delay was when the e'ernted railroads asked for the tppointmenr of a man to v represent them on the valnati'vi committee this took rhrce we_ks and the first delay was ailed by the appoint ment of professor gt po f swtfm of harvard university and the arrival in chi cago iused another drlay when he did arrive sere there was another delay he tause he-^id not bring with hiai from the east the talls desired by the 1 r.-vnspor tation committee of the city council that the companies must have the in ventory of each road in hand is pointed to from the fact that only recently there ii consolidation of all of the elevated rrilroads and it is stated thnt neither company would consent to a consolidation without a definite inventory of the prop erties of each company at the meeting of the transportation committee on december 11 it was found necessary to again inform the president of the company that the valuations were de sired a portion of the resolution that was adopted at this meeting was as fol lows besolved that in accordance with i th foregoing the elevated railways com pany be requested to prepare as soon as such inventory and valuation and submit the several portions of it as mu as completed to the committee _______________________________ miss katherine elkins preacher riot leader hanged in theater rain makes outdoor execution dis agreeable so relatives of slain man watch it from boxes jackson ga dec 14 the rev wil liam turner the negro preacher who in cited the race riot which resulted in the killing of jesse siugley a wealthy planter was hanged here shortly after noon in king's opera house â– the sheriff had intended to bang the negro in the jail yard but the weather was very disagreeable and the relntlves of the murdered man wanted to be present he decided to have the execution in the opera house the gallows was erected on the stage and the execution passed off without a hitch the boxes and front seats were oceupie-1 by relatives and friends of the murdered man only a few persons in addition were ad:nitted before the trap was sprung thc negro confessed that he fired the shot which killed singley and warned members of his race against whisky drinking three sons of turner are in jail await ing trial for complicity in the crime for which their father was hanged aldrich retires is glad senator at white house says hej leaves public life without regret washington dec 14 after n chat with the president during which the labors of the monetary commission were discussed former senator aldrlch to-day announced bis formal retirement from pub lic life he told the president that the commission will send its report to con gress january 8 he spoke with ap parent pleasure of his farewell to public life , i retire without regret he said annoyed miss elkins Chicago man insane samuel b mchenry made violent love by mail to ex senator's daughter sent her 200 love notes my darling guardian angel he called her wanted to elope in an airship washington dec 14 an unusual and carefully concealed chapter in the romance surrounding miss katherine el kins daughter of thc late united states senator stephen b elkins and alternately reported engaged to the duke d'abruzzi of italy and billle hltt of Illinois came to light here to-day when samuel b mc henry a Chicago inventor was formally committed to the government hospital for the insane it developed that for two years mchenry has made miss elkins the recipient of more than 200 love-laden missives most frequent ly directed to my darling guardian angel - a.n4.-niost . af fectlgnatc in their tone that he has pursued tier in person with an eccentric devotion nnd that he was arrested here on november 14 just as he was sending in his card to her at her residence with the intention of asking for her band it was only when mcÃŸenry's harrasslng attentions had reduced miss elkins to a state of semi-terror that the servants were instructed to have the inventor arrested his guardian angel mchenry told the police that shortly after his return to Chicago two years ago he was walking along state street when a vision appeared to him it was miss elkins he stopped and engaged in imag inary conversation with bis imaginary ac quaintance greetings had been hardly exchanged when a workman employed on a nearby building toppled from the fif teenth story crashing to a fearful death on the sidewalk within a few feet of him right then and there i knew she was my guardian angel mchenry told the police and i determined to win her mchenry wrote miss elkins that if she would agree he would sail in the aeroplane from Chicago some morning next spring he could make the journey in two days he said and on the third morning he would land at the window of the boudoir throughout the trip he would keep miss elkins in touch by wireless with bis whereabouts health and spirits mchenry is forty-five years old and of stylish ap pearance samnel b mchenry formerly lived in a lodging house at 419 wells street and ac vorrting to otto ringer a fellow lodger tvas decidedly queer mchenry was a very peculiar man said ringer always inventing things i have known him for nearly three years and during that period i have known him to do many queer things he was a brushmaker but he never had time to ply his trade devoting it all to invent ing things with which he was going to make his fortune during the recent aviation meet he conceived the idea of inventing nn airship which would furnish its own motor power shortly after he constructed the mc henry self-propelled airship as he called the machine he told me that he had launched the ship from the roof of the i house and had sailed over the lake and back he was angry because none of the newspapers had given any notice to the most wonderful feat of modern times chanler decree on jan 25 sheriff bob to celebrate freedom from cavalieri with feast special cable to the ex-miner paris dec 14 the tribunnl of the seine has fixed the twenty-fifth of janunry as the date for pronouncing the divorce in the cnvalieri-chanler case this date will also mark a divorce dinner to be given to his friends by robert wlnthrop chanler whose matrimonial venture has cost him 75,000 chanler believes in cele brating his freedom from the bonds of matrimony as much as he does ln making the occasion when two are made ode the excuse for a large feast / c w allen's will proves him wizard papers of millionaire who died in palmec house mar vel of clearness wealth near 5,000,000 only worthless item found is 750 note given by a friend kenosha wis dec 14 that charles w allen who met a mysterious death in the palmer house in Chicago several months ago was a most astute business man is shown by the inventory of his will filed here to-day out of a fortune valued at 4,973,012.55 an item of only 750 was declared worth less by the appraisers of the estate and this consisted of a loan to a friend every bit of paper is intact only 65 000 of the estate consists of real estate 1b and ln the immediate vicinity of this city in addition to caring for_ews own enor mous holdings mr allen for many ?<â™¦Â»Â«. tbs prior to his death is said to have vprtna-lly been the overseer of the fortunes of his brother nathan allen who is also a multi millionaire when the latter became involved with mrs helen dwell jenkins and was in dicted by the federal grand jury on the charge of smuggling gems into the country for his notorious charmer charles allen stepped into the breach mrs jenkins declared that he took charge of the contents of a safety deposit box containing jewels and valuable nego tiable paper which she said belonged joint ly to her and nathan allen defender of brother likewise when an effort was later de clared to have been made by various per sons to blackmail nathan allen charles allen stood between his brother and those who sought to secure a part of his for tune the larger part of the holdings of the dead man consist of nearly 000,000 ln union pacific common stock the next largest item being bonds of the central leather company to the value of 808 050 mrs ellen f allen his widow is sole heir to the estate and she will pay the largest inheritance tax ever collected by the state of wisconsin thls tax as levied by assistant attor ney general russell jackson and john harrington of the wisconsin state tax commission is 142,067 in addition the estate will pay similar taxes ln other states to the amount of nearly 140,000 statement of holdings following is a statement of the principal holdings according to the inventory real estate homt-tead in kenosha 20,000 160 acres of land in kenosha county .... 25 000 golf grounds property 0,000 total 65,000 personal property stocks â€” 70 share Chicago & northwestern pfd...s 9.750 1.200 shares atch topeka & santa fe 121,200 12,400 shares union pacific 1,946,800 5.000 shares southern pacific 538,0041 14,100 shares united stateÃŸ steel 750 v,i0 2.600 shares utah copper company 101.000 100 shares central leather pfd 9,000 1,500 shares commercial & continental national bank of Chicago 405,000 267 shares national city bank of chi cago 52,332 total etocta 3,933,8-7 bonds 14 bonds atchison topeka * santa fe..s 14,595 1 bond union pacific 1.005 3 bonds southern pacific 2.850 1 bond galveston houston & san antonio 1,000 114 bonds central leather company .... 868,050 total bonds j857.530 cash â€” total cash in bank $ 70,591.30 total 4.957,008.30 cullom aids mrs tanner i senator's act shows that death has wiped out former bitter feeling washington dec 14 death wiped out the bitterness existing between senator shelby m cullorn and former governor john r tanner of Illinois senator cul lorn has introduced a bill providing for a pension of 50 a month for cora edith tanner of springfield widow of the for mer governor prior to 1900 tanner was culloin's political manager in that year he ran against him for senator and the campaign was particularly bitter active hostility between the two continued until tanner's death _ __ â– gould buys castle plans to live life of a scottish lord head of millionaire family pur chases country estate near perthshire speoial cable to the examiner london dec 14 george gould has bought castle menzies near perthshire scotland a beautiful country place with several thousand surrounding acres of woodlands the american millionaire father-in-law of lord decies intends to establish him self in ducal state like andrew carnegie the laird of skibo when the facts of the purchase became known it was related that mr gould would retain his permanent home in amer ica but thnt he intended to spend several months of each year surrounded by his family at his highland place it is said that the arrangements for obtaining this estate were carried on through lord decios new york dec 14 to-night from an authoritative source the examiner is in formed that mr gould has no intention of establishing himself as a scottish lord of the manor this friend said that mr gould enjoyed a recent shooting season very much in scotland and that no sur 4Â»h_y,wÂ»uld t fohww among hb friends if it fas nr.oni)ced that he might made other trips tor hunting during the season into scotland but while he may have leased some place for the hunting he has made no purchase * those who have been intimately asso ciated with mr gonld in recent months however have frequently expressed the be lief that he was preparing to retire from all active business life last july it was reported that he had expressed a longing to lead the quiet life of an english country gentlemau dippel to judge brawn grand opera manager wants five muscular giants heir lamdreas dippel director of the Chicago opera company will be called upon to-day to qualify as an expert judge of brawn for he is to choose the men to take the heavy parts in quo vadis an army of men who have read the appeal of dippel in the papers will assemble at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the auditorium to give proof of their physical worth the manager wants five men who must weigh more than 200 pounds it is the choice for the part of ursus that makes dlppel's row wrinkle for ursns is the one who rescues the beautiful lygla from the back of the bull by the simple process of twisting the bnll's neck until it breaks women may join army german suffragettes enthusiastic over proposed military service dtjsseldokf germany dec 14 the introduction of obligatory military service for women was proposed at a meeting to-day of the patriotic women's union here by privy medical councilor witzel professor of the medical academy at dusseldorf the lecturer suggested that women should be enrolled in the military hospital transport provisioning and clothing service and should he mobil ized with the other auxiliary troops lu case of war the proposition has been taken up enthusiastically by the suffra gettes m'kee rankin's wife dead kitty blanchard succumbs of cerebral hemorrhage in bath tub new tork dec 14 the body of mrs oliver ' a rankin seventy years old known to theater-goers a generation ago as kitty blanchard and later the wife of mc kee rankin was found to-day in a bath tub filled with water ln her apartments at the hotel belleclaire she supported rankin for many years ln the plays which made him known from new york to san francisco the physicians attrthute the death to cerebral hemorrhage connaught's son to india spcci.l cable to the examiner london dec 14 a report is current here that prince arthnr of connaught son of the present governor-general of can ada will succeed bart hardlnge as viceroy of india no conflrmatiwa is o.tainable girl is bound and gagged in a robbery mystery thieves tie three others ruth wilks daughter of guard in field museum says she was carried into bathroom bound hand and foot mrs hartig her daughter and others attacked in store by four who cut phone wires and take money and jewelry bound and gagged miss kuth e yvilk seventeen-year-old daughter of d j witts was found shortly before 4 o'clock yestcw day morning by frnnk b bell in the apart ment occupied jointly by mr and mr bell and the wilks family on ufec thlnl floor of 1409 east fifty-third street she declares that a robber who entered the house by way of the fire escape in the front bound and gagged be and the police of the hyde park station are face with one of the most remarkable cases in the history of the station similarly mrs mary c hartig her daughter and a customer were bonr/d afta gagged and robbed last night by four robbers who entered mrs hartig's grocery store at 3420 west fifty-ninth street the robbers cut the telephone wires and escaped after securing 100 and several pieces of jewelry mrs harry court a neighbor discovered the plight of the yic tims and released them miss wilks declares that after the man who entered the house at 1400 east fifty third street had bound and gagged her he was carrying her to another part of the house when he knocked over a vase the noise frightened him and after de positing her on the floor she declares that he fled down the are escape and got away before she could rouse the household mr bell who rents the flat is em ployed in the general offices of the Illinois central railroad he and his wife sublet part of the flat to the wilks family about three months ago father is museum guard mr wilks is a guard at the field mu seum and his family consists of himself mrs wilke and their daughter the victim of the remarkable occurrence of yesterday morning the house faces the north and is ln the immediate vicinity of the hyde park i m c a building the fire escape by which the intruder is declared to have eutered and left the building is in front mr and mrs bell occupy the parlor which is the front room and ln which they sleep across the hall from this room is an alcove at the front of which is the window opening on the fire es cape back of the parlor is a bedroom next comes the bedroom occupied by mr and mrs wilks and next is the dining room in which miss wilts sleeps on a sanitary couch at the extreme rear is the kitchen across the hall from the bedroom occu pied by mr and mrs wilks is the bath room several feet in front of which is tiie entrance to the flat miss wilks declares tbat the man entered - the dining room threatened her if she made any noise carried her to the bath room bound and gagged her and was ear . rying her to the front windows opening on the arc escape when he became fright ened and fled awake when man entered i must have been wakened by the noise he made when opening the front window said miss wilks for i was awake when he entered the dining room he was aoout 5 feet s inches tall and was strong he saw tbat i was awake and told me to keep still or he would make me then he leaned down picked me up ln his arms and very gently carried me into the bath room where there was a dim light burning nnd i got a good look at him he was a handsome man with dark c.-"ly hair dark syebrows and wore small side whiskers i suppose he was between twenty-five and thirty ye.irs old i noticed he wore tennis sho3 . i was afraid to scream aod be took â€¢ towel tnd tied my ankle togethw then miss ruth e wilks loses 75,000 when he declines to wed not sufficient to take chance says corbin after one wrecked marriage new britain conn dec 14 8y re fusing to wed before saturday night charles corbin son of the late philip cor bin the multi-millionaire manufacturer who died last winter has forfeited 75,000 his father's will left him 150,000 if he married before december 16 1911 the date set for the division of the estate 75,000 if he was single at that time corbin said to-night that he was not married and that he did not intend to marry in order to claim the inheritance the financial in ducement offered as a reward for my mar riage is not sufficient for me to take the chance he said it has been rumored that he would re marry lillian blakeslee corbin who di vorced him three years ago because of his irregular habits obtaining the custody of her ' two children after the divorce charles corbin reformed he stopped drinking and waÃŸ put to work in the of fice of his father's hardware factory in manner of life he became almost a re cluse his marriage to mrs lillian ur sula blakeslee ln 1882 was frowned on by the corbins she was beautiful but not socially prominent whereas the corbins were social leaders nets to catch suicides mayor would thus protect persons in downtown skyscrapers installation of nets to protect the public from the falling bodies of suicides in sky scraper buildings is suggested by mayor harrison in a letter sent to building com missioner ericsson yesterday something should be done said the mayor to give protection to citizens ln the lobbies of downtown buildings and 1 would be pleased to have you give the matter at tention especially ln regard to the ma sonic temple which seems to be the favored building for suicides lu the case of very high buildings the mayor suggested that layers of nets five floors apart mighty be stretched across tho light shafts above the lobbies feast of opportunities rich enough and varied enough to satisfy nny ambition for advancement any longing for a better home or de sire for efficient help is spread in the broad pages of the examiner evervi morning and sunday on the bill of fare are real estate for sale help wanted business op portunities apartments io let situa tions wanted stbres and lofts to let farms for sale furnished rooms to let boarders wanted real estate wanted a million read them Chicago examiner want ad pages want ad office no 9 w madison streot just west of state st phone 5000 automatic 44344